Equation 13 · Part 1 · The Vacuum Has a History: Symmetry Breaking as Speciation
Symbol A
What this part means
a prefactor from fluctuations around that solution.
Its job in the formula
A is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Full expression→Symbol A→Article meaning
Where the article explains it
where is the Euclidean action evaluated on the classical solution that mediates the tunneling — the “bounce” — and A is a prefactor from fluctuations around that solution.
The passage around this formula
where is the Euclidean action evaluated on the classical solution that mediates the tunneling — the “bounce” — and A is a prefactor from fluctuations around that solution. The exponential dependence on the bounce action is the entire reason a metastable vacuum can be, for all practical purposes, permanent: a large action makes the exponent enormous and negative, suppressing the decay rate to a number that can…
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
- [8] Gravitational effects on and of vacuum decay ↗
- [12] Investigating the near-criticality of the Higgs boson ↗
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